Featured article: Predicting medical students who will have difficulty during their clinical training

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Graduate entry, female sex, and better performance in UMAT paper 2 are associated with a lower risk for having difficulties during clinical training in this study, whereas international students were at the highest risk potentially due to differences in selection pathways and delayed acculturation.

Aims and scope

BMC Medical Education is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.

Sigrid Harendza, Section Editor

Sigrid Harendza is professor for internal medicine and educational research at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Sigrid joined the BMC Medical Education Editorial Board in 2013.